--- title: If someone is upset with you, staying calm and speaking quietly help… — Reading faces and voices · tree and pragmatics description: If someone is upset with you, staying calm and speaking quietly helps them calm down too. Who acts: someone, staying, bodies. A sentence of the lesson «Reading faces and voices» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Reading faces and voices](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/) / 17 # Reading faces and voices, sentence 17 If someone is upset with you, staying calm and speaking quietly helps them calm down too. **Who acts:** someone, staying, bodies · **What happens:** be, stay, speak, help, calm down · **To what, where:** bodies · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading faces and voices» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (someone, staying, bodies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:014-faces-and-voices.lesson:17 # text = If someone is upset with you, staying calm and speaking quietly helps them calm down too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 014-faces-and-voices.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 upset upset ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 advcl _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 staying stay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 csubj _ _ 9 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 speaking speak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 conj _ _ 12 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 calm calm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 down down ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 too too ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone | | | | | with you; upset *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **stay** | gerund | | | | | | calm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | quietly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **help** | present | staying | bodies *= body* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **calm down** | infinitive | bodies *= body* *not said here* | | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:014-faces-and-voices.lesson:17`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Reading faces and voices, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/16/) - next →: [Reading faces and voices, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/)